Abstract
This article presents an outline of an anthropological political ecology that fully recognizes the constructed character of nature, suggesting the steps to bring the cultural and the biological together on constructivist bases. From tropical forests to advanced biotechnology laboratories, resources for the invention of natures and cultures are unevenly distributed.
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